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The Australian colonial house : architecture and society in New South Wales 1788-1842 / James Broadbent.
Record no.:
6541
Author:
Broadbent, James.;
Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales;
Publisher:
Potts Point, N.S.W. :: Hordern House in association with the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, and supported by the Friends of the Historic Houses Trust,
Year:
1997.
Description:
xxxii, 400 pages : illustrations, plans ; 32 cm.
Subject:
Historic buildings - Australia - New South Wales.;
Historic buildings - Australia.;
Architecture, Domestic - Australia.;
Architecture, Domestic - Australia - New South Wales.;
Architecture and society - Australia.;
Architecture, Colonial - Australia.;
Australia - Social conditions - 1788-1851.;
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-389) and index.Noel Dan
Gift ;
2023.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
1875567186 :;
Abstract:
1. The first houses 1788-1805 -- 2. The first verandahs 1788-1810 -- 3. Macquarie Place -- 4. Macquarie Palladianism -- 5. Francis Greenway -- 6. Henry Kitchen -- 7. Houses 1823-1830 -- 8. The development of Woolloomooloo Hill -- 9. The villas of Woolloomooloo
Hill -- 10. Architects of the 1830s -- 11. Pure merinos and professionals -- 12. Four amatuers -- 13. Verandahs, verandahed cottages and bungalows -- 14. The new government house -- 15. The depression of the 1840s.

The Australian Colonial House is the first comprehensive history of domestic architecture in New South Wales during its first fifty years. It looks at houses that were built and the influences on their building."--Book Jacket.
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